Alfred Naumann

Alfred Naumann (* 1847 in Hainichen ; † January 20, 1917 in Dresden ) was a German photographer and community elder.

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A. Naumann: Carl Reinecke , 1893

After completing his training in the arts and crafts and after completing his military service, Naumann took over the art institute for photography and arts and crafts in Leipzig , Dorotheen-Str. 12. As “Königl. Saxon, Herzogl. Saxon. Mine. u. Herzogl. Saxon. Altenburg Hof Photograph ”he photographed numerous prominent personalities of his time. Photographs by Naumann are now kept in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, for example .

In 1896 Naumann withdrew from his company and moved to Niederlößnitz in a villa at Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 3 . In Niederlößnitz he became a member of the municipal council in the same year, to which he belonged until his death in 1917, finally becoming the first church elder . As chairman of the building committee, Naumann made numerous contributions to the local building regulations, which the Niederlößnitz preserved the character of the villa development. He was a member of the Leipzig Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde .

Naumann, who with his wife Anna Marie geb. Muenzer (1857-1918) recently in the cottage-like, today under monument protection standing villa Ledenweg 14 lived (then Schulstraße 6) died in 1917 in Dresden . His widow, who outlived him by a year, ordered the establishment of the Alfred Naumann Foundation for charitable and non-profit purposes , to which she bequeathed all of her assets. The non-profit foundation with legal capacity was transferred to the collective foundation of the city of Radebeul at the beginning of 1949 .

A street in Niederlößnitz has been named after Alfred Naumann since 1920.

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• Naumann, Alfred: If you want a good photograph: advice for those who want to be photographed; Dedicated to the public and especially to its customers. Oskar Leiner, Leipzig 1875.
• David Friedrich Strauss : Poetic Memorial Book. Poems from the estate . Strauss, Bonn 1878 (with 1 etched portrait of Alfred Naumann).

Awards

• Merit medal for art and science on the green and silver ribbon of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1883)
• Bavarian golden Ludwig medal for science and art
• Mecklenburg Medal for Art and Science in gold
• Baden gold medal for art and science
• Extraordinary member of the Association for the Care of Photography and Related Arts in Frankfurt a. M.

literature

• Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .

Web links

Commons : Alfred Naumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alfred Naumann in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
• A. Naumann in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Very old photo album - altar folds with hard cardboard pictures by various court photographers from Leipzig and Metz. ebay.at, accessed on February 18, 2009 .  No longer available.
2. ^ Search Results 1–3 of 3 for “Naumann”. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, accessed February 18, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ). 
3. ↑ Association and staff news . In: Emil Hornig (Ed.): Photographische Correspondenz . No. 264 , 1883, pp. 326 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online [accessed June 2, 2020]).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Address book of Dresden and suburbs. 1915. Part VI, p. 352.
5. ^ Membership directory from March 1890 . In: Emil Hornig (Ed.): Photographische Correspondenz . No. 355 , 1890, pp. 193 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online [accessed June 2, 2020]).